DANČÁK, Karel

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Karel Dančák worked as a laborer and shoemaker in the Bata company in 1937. In 1940, Dančák was sent by the company to the Philippines. During the Japanese Occupation, he volunteered for the US Army, he became a civilian in the service of the U.S. Department of Defense in 1941. After the fall of the Allied armies in the Philippines, he was imprisoned in Cabanatuan, then in Bilibid Prison. He was released in 1945 along with other Czechoslovakian nationals (Hermann, Lenk, Moravek) He then moved to the USA where he worked for the Bata Company in Belcamp.